{"id":20233,"date":"2025-10-30T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20233\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:04:09","slug":"repairs-underway-after-retaining-wall-collapses-in-west-reading-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20233\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairs underway after retaining wall collapses in West Reading | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; A retaining wall in West Reading collapsed earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking everyone to avoid the area between the Candlewood Suites and a rear parking lot behind the 200 block of Penn Avenue. That&#8217;s near Franklin Street and South Second Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Police say engineers are assessing the damage.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear if today&#8217;s wet, windy weather may have been a factor.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor issued a limited emergency declaration to speed up work in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; A retaining wall in West Reading collapsed earlier today. Police are asking everyone to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,128,130,129,14023,707],"class_list":["post-20233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-retaining-wall","tag-west-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}